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André Gedalge was the son of Elias Jonas, a Polish Jew who settled in Paris, changed his name to Emile Gedalge (transcription of Gedaliah, the name of the Judean governor murdered under Nebuchadnezzar) and founded the "Librairie Gedalge " publishing company.
Despite is father 's disapproval, André wanted to become a musician. He studied composition under Ernest Guiraud and in 1886, he won the Second Grand Prix de Rome. He worked as an assistant to both Ernest Guiraud and Jules Massenet. He was an "admirable teacher ", a "little-known unifying spirit", with rigorous intellectual honesty, but also a great sense of humor, exceptional moral qualities and a big hearth. Always ready to listen to others, led as he was by his pure love of mankind, he knew how to share the knowledge of his enlightened soul. He lived a simple and unostentatious life. He spent many hours in is barge along the Marne, in the silence that he loved so much, preferring to devote his time to fly-fishing rather than to go to salons to reap praise and fake compliments.
Many world-known musicians attended his fugue and counterpoint class at the Paris Conservatory, listening with veneration and attention to the advice of the one who said of his music that it was "neither literature nor painting": Maurice Ravel (1), Florent Schmitt,Georges Enesco, André Bloch, Raoul Laparra, Charles Koechlin, Max d'Olonne, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud (2), Nadia Boulanger, Bernard Crocé-Spinelli, Roger Ducasse, Paul Ladmirault, Jean Wiener, Jacques Ibert, Claude Champagne, Marc Berthomieu ...
Robert Brussel pointed out in Le Figaro:"The wonder was how well the teachings of Gabriel Fauré and André Gedalge meshed together. One can say that the students of one were the students of the other. And the art of the master of Pénélope shines in a new light,once we discover this secret link between the genius that transfigures everything and the pedagogical talent built on artistic consciousness, purity, and style."
"He was from another time. He belonged to an age when masters never signed their masterpieces, but would merely be satisfied with offering them on the altar of Beauty. He was unstinting in is efforts to bring light into the souls of is disciples. He felt more joy in the praise given to the work of is students than to is own," said the great violinist Georges Enesco, paying his respects to André Gedalge, the day after his death in 1926.
Gedalge is buried in Chessy,where he was Mayor right before World War One.
Traduction Isabelle Cecchini - Valentine Hacquard
1 "I am happy to say that I owe him the most precious
elements of my craft ... It is not simply friendship that led me to
name the trio after him, it was a homage to the master."
2 "I am saved," said Darius Milhaud when he became André Gedalge's pupil. "I often thought that the foundation of is teaching and the meaning of his musical art rested on this sentence he would often tell us: - Write eight measures that can be played without accompaniment '."
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Thanks to
André Gedalge, France will cease to be a nation where there
are musicians and become a musical nation.
Henri Rabaud
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4 Symphonies, one concerto for piano, chamber music (two sonatas for violin and piano, a string quartet, a Piece for trombone), seventy melodies, operas comiques, ballets.
Fugue Treatise (Editions Enoch), Counterpoint Treatise (unfinished), various pedagogical works and contest pieces for trumpet, bassoon etc.
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055507 Pièce pour trombone et
piano -
duration 5'
d'après le manuscrit conservé à la
Bibliothèque nationale de France
premiere: march 2006, Auditorium Maurice-Ravel de Levallois-Perret
(Benny Sluchin, trombone)
055513 Quatuor à cordes - duration 35'
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12 March 2006: Concert by Benny Sluchin, trombone at the Auditorium Maurice-Ravel of Levallois-Perret (Pièce pour trombone by André Gedalge - Editions Musicales Européennes)
6 April 2006: Radio show by Stéphane Goldet about Gedalge 's melodies with Mario Hacquard and Claude Collet (France Musique)
September
2006: CD
Release: Mélodies et pièces
instrumentales (Melodies and Instrumental pieces)by André
Gedalge published by POLYMNIE
(INTEGRAL Distribution)
Mario Hacquard, baritone - Geneviève Laurenceau, violin -
Antoine Curé, trumpet
Benny Sluchin, trombone - Claude Collet and Lorène de Ratuld,
piano
16 September 2006: Concert in the Chessy church featuring pieces by Gedalge, following L'Histoire de Babar by Francis Poulenc and Jean de Brunhoff.
September 2006: at the Journées du Patrimoine in Chessy: Exposition Gedalge à Chessy with the participation of the Association La Grangée de l'histoire and the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
9 December 2006: Concert in the Chessy church of Gedalge pieces, and 'Histoire de Babar by Francis Poulenc and Jean de Brunhoff for the Téléthon
Year 2006: Dedication of a commemorative plaque by the Mairie de Paris,on the house where he was born at 75 rue des Saints-Pères in Paris, for the 150th anniversary of is birth.
